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<p><b>Condorcet's jury theorem</b> is a <a href="page.php?w=Statistics">statistical</a> theorem about the <a href="page.php?w=probability">probability</a> of a given group of individuals arriving at a correct decision. The theorem was first expressed by the <a href="page.php?w=Marquis_de_Condorcet">Marquis de Condorcet</a> in his 1785 work Essay on the Application of Analysis to the Probability of Majority Decisions.</p>

<p>The assumptions of the theorem are that a group wishes to reach a decision by <a href="page.php?w=majority_rule">majority vote</a>.</p><p>
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